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Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the...

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Time is the only critic without ambition.

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.

In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.

I have never smuggled anything in my life. Why, then, do I feel an uneasy sense of guilt on approaching a customs barrier?

One can find so many pains when the rain is falling.

Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play.

Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.

If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones.

We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it.

Four hoarse blasts of a ship's whistle still raise the hair on my neck and set my feet to tapping.

The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.

A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.

I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.

The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.

It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth.

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.

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